Debian Installation :: Gnome 3 Failure On AMD A6-6400 APU
Dec 2, 2014
This is a new install of debian 7.7 amd64 on the following new hardware
MSI A78M-E35
A6-6400 APU
Basically I am unable to get gnome 3 to run (it defaults back to some legacy ver). I tried a few other distros out there FC17 worked but FC20 failed. Just tried Debian Jesse it works after installing linux-firmware-nonfree but want to stick to a 'stable release'
dmesg says i need to install firmware-linux-nonfree so i did that but to no avail. Here is dmesg:
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x00a2-0x00bf]
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x00b1]
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x00e0-0x00ef]
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x04d0-0x04d1]
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x040b]
[ 0.203992] pnp 00:0d: [io 0x04d6]
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linux-gkpt:~ # lspci -v
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at efdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
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